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Among the many advantages of the new ProQuest Dialog™ platform are the multi-faceted features of My Research. Here, you can organize and save your work in your own personal space. You can create folders in which to store your documents.
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Login with your ProQuest Dialog Username and password. Your initial login will take you to our opening screen.
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To enter My Research, click on My Research at the top of the screen. My Research lets you:
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My Research is your own personal workspace where you can save, store and organize your retrieval, create folders and annotate records.
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This is the My Research screen. Notice the tabs across the top. Here you can view documents you have stored, check search strategies, Alerts and RSS feeds you have created, as well as tags — your own indexed terms you have added to records.
Widgets provides a ProQuest search box you can add to your Web page.
The account tab contains your ProQuest Dialog profile.
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When you are working with documents: why use My Research?
Let's start by looking at selecting items.
Following a search you can select records to keep for the session by checking off the check boxes to the left of records you wish to select. ProQuest Dialog holds the records you have selected for the duration of the session, and you can view these records together at any time by clicking Selected items.
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Choose how much of the records you wish to view, from Results listing only to the full record.
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Transactional customers will see a Price Preview. Click Continue to proceed.
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You are now in Selected items and you can add to this page throughout the session as you continue to search for information. Browse the records you selected and check off the boxes for the ones you wish to save permanently to your ProQuest Dialog account. Then click Save to My Research.
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A dialog box opens. You can save the records to the general All Documents page in My Research or, using the drop-list, choose a folder you have already created, or you can create a new folder. Save the records to the All Documents page for now.
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The records you saved to My Research are marked "Saved to My Research". Let's go to My Research and take a look.
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In My Research you can see the documents you've added, and you can perform such actions as adding records to folders, annotating individual records, emailing them to colleagues, printing them out, getting citations, exporting records and saving them as files.
You want to store these records to folders. In the right panel under Folders click New folder.
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You can place the new folder as a subsidiary of an existing folder. Alzheimer's Disease Therapy will go under the folder for Alzheimer's Disease. Click Create folder.
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The folder is created. Now click on the Documents tab to add the records to the new folder.
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On the Documents page, make sure the records you want to go into the folder are checked. click Add to folder and choose the folder's name in the drop-list.
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The records are now in the new folder. Notice the Current folder drop-list identifying the new folder as the location as well as the folder identification for each record.
Sort options are available on the right panel to display the records by Date added, Publication Year, Ascending, or Publication Year, Descending.
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You can add notes to your records. Notice the Notes box open and a message entered. To save the note, click Save. See the icon for Add notes in the second record. That's what you click when you want to add notes.
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Notes are created and you can edit them as needed by clicking the hyperlinked message.
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The Searches tab shows how many saved searches you have. On the right panel you can click Recent searches to view searches run in this session.
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My Research lets you manage saved searches, Alerts and RSS feeds.
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Having run a search, you can check results and decide if the strategy works for you to store permanently for ongoing research. You can execute saved searches from time to time as your research needs require. Perhaps you want to run a search monthly to check new data. This example shows a search run in Command Line Search. To save a search strategy click Actions and then Save search.
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Name the Saved Search and choose the sets you wish to keep.
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There is a small monthly fee to store Saved Searches. Click Continue if you wish to proceed.
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Your saved search is stored on the Searches tab. You can show or hide your search sets, edit its name and add notes.
When you want to execute a Saved search, simply go to My Research, click on Searches. Press the hyperlinked search strategy. Date-range limit options appear that you can use to execute the strategy as an update to previous findings.
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Use the Alerts tab to manage your Alerts. If you need to edit your own email address, edit it on your account on the Account tab.
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Manage your RSS feeds in the RSS feeds tab.
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Another easy way to share intelligence gathered in a search is to click on icons to send records to colleagues, create citations and to export your records to RefWorks or another bibliographic management tool.
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You can email citations to colleagues by clicking on the orange envelope icon for email. Enter the requested information and add a message. Specify how much of the records you wish to include. You can choose a citation style and specify the email format, such as HTML or text only. Click the Continue button.
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By clicking the Cite icon, you can get a citation and likewise choose the style.
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Export citations directly to your RefWorks account or to another bibliographic management tool.
If you have a RefWorks account you can synchronize it with My Research. Click a link to Learn more to find out how.
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ProQuest Dialog takes you to the RefWorks login screen where you can enter your RefWorks Log-in Name and Password.
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There is no end to the things you can do in My Research.
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You can create a search widget to reside on your desktop. Follow the instructions on the page.
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Finally, you can manage your account information from the Account tab. Use this page to change your password, to edit your email address, to change preferences, to customize your search options, to create database shortcuts.
